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This is to be a series of 1v1 tournaments. To be played on certain maps in which I enjoy or find to be good gameplay.This is the TPA version.....which has been slightly extended to accommodate more participants

Round 132 players will play round robin games once against each other. 15 games at a time for 31 games total.The top 16 players* will advance to round 2.

Round 2These 16 players will play round robin games once against each other. 5 games at a time for 15 games total.The top 8** players will advance to round 3.

Round 3-5These 8 players will be seeded into a knockout bracket based on where they finished in round 2.These games will be best of 5 with the loser eliminated. This continues on until our winner is crowned.

*Players will be ranked on w-l record. Players tied on w-l will be sorted by w-l between themselves. Eg. If 4 people are tied on 20-11. Those 4 people will be sorted by who has the most wins against the other 3. If still tied. Random.org If this position is to determine who misses out on advancing then a series of tie breakers are to be played.**Results won’t carry over from Round 1. Only in the case of ties will Round 1 results be used.

Sign up/Rules/Notes

1. premium players only as game load is always more than 4.2. All games to be sent via pm links. If you join the wrong game then you will receive a 1 game penalty.3. You have 48 hours to join all games I will not always send a reminder after 24 hours. So its on you. If you are late you will lose that game. In round 1 you will have 1 week to join your games. This is to accomodate the higher game load.4. Past winners will have a place held for them for 24 hours max. (As current tourny is in last 2 games of the final round the winner will have his/her spot reserved as soon as that person is known)5. Any issues complaints are to come to me. My rule is law.6. Currently there are 32 spots available for sign up. If there is enough interest I can extend the tournament to 64 participants.

On the tie breakers--I can understand using random.org if needed for seeds that are qualified for rounds 2 and 3, but if you have a more than a 2 player tie in that 8th spot and cannot decide it by a clear winner, I think they should all play each other again rather than having random.org choose a final spot.

Just my opinion.

And on a side note:

15 games at a time for 31 games total.

--I understand what you will do here but I thought I would be funny

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

I honestly dont think ill need random.org...this will be the 4th time ive ran this style of tourny....and there has yet to be a tie i couldnt resolve. I just put random.org in there just in case...I think that perhaps I will use a tiebreaker gamee if its for that last spot to move onto next round.But like i said it has yet to get that far